Consistency diagrams are very useful to understand the behavior of a trader.Problems begin when you rate them with a score.If you manage positions witha trailing stop you won't acheive a score better than average, the score will definitely kill you if you trade different timeframes or you use breakeven exits.@Yofxtrader

You are right but it is very difficult to rate the discipline of a trader. As for negative excursion it depends on the kind of strategy.For example my trendfollower LSC works with an high average win/loss ratio, my reversal KVL works with stops wider than targets. Of course risking 500 pips to close 5 pips is bad behaviour...

I completely agree. I have been discussing this topic with Darwinex for the past 2 years (from the time it was originally the 'discipline' IA). They have listened, and made some changes but they have not really tackled the core issue, which is that the Consistency attribute is not contributing to the traders overall score in a logical way. I agree with the comments above.

Sometimes price will move quickly and sometimes it will move slowly towards its target, which results in a potentially wide range of trade durations. This is not the traders fault.

Likewise, depending on where support / resistance levels exist, this will impact the number of pips for the target of the trade causing a large range. Again this is not the traders fault.

Obviously, if trading from a range of chart timeframes in the same account this clearly plays havoc with the score and the system is punished severely.

The consistency attribute favours those traders that have a fixed stop loss / limit for every trade, which is fine if that works for the trader but is not what most traders do for a number of other reasons

My view is that the consistency attribute either needs completely removing and the total number reducing to just 5 IAs or replacing by something completely different (I must admit, I don't know what that would be though). I think 5 is a nice number

Please please listen Darwinwx and make your platform better and more appealing

The more important aspects of a consistent trader are already covered by Risk Management.Frequncy of the trades and composition of the portfolio could be used to state if a trader is following the same strategy in a consistent way.

No worries @CSForex, I learnt from another user that the DARWIN in question was MNG. I must admit the performance of that strategy is scary to say the least. I am looking into it as we speak, will share my thoughts, if any, later on.

@CSForex it looks like you are looking at his monthly returns to evaluate his consistency? You'd need to check his "Consistency" charts to see why this trader gets a good score in consistency.

I will write a post on this shortly, but it seems to me that concepts are being mixed up here: a trader can be very consistent and lose money... and also a trader can be very inconsistent and yield good returns!

@ignacio I have not understood, because when translated with the translator I have a question.But I answer as I understand.The first paragraph does not answer to have doubts about what you really mean and so do not say something stupid.The second section, I'll be awaiting your post, see if I clear.

What I see and it is my impression that according to strategy use the trader will have better note or worse, this in view of an investor can be misleading, for example: top marks darwins there are scalper, usually most strategies that seek less than 20 pip's have very good grades, but that the way they operate seek higher goals and not always achieve its goal because it is more difficult to get is penalized for its algorithm. I ask: Who is better trader, the scalper or day trader or swing trader. My answer is, the trader it gets to be profitable and steady. I'm just saying they should in his own good and so the good of the trader try to balance the scales.

And just in case, I have nothing against the sclaper, I was sclaper for 4 years.

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